Shinjite

by: Enchanted Kagome

Summary

Youkai now rule Tokyo. Five years ago, Kagome watched helplessly as youkais slaughtered her grandma, raped her mother and brutally beat her brother. She had long lost all belief in justice and hope. What happens when she meets one hanyou who's different from the rest? This is a story of belief and love, lost and found.

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Tiny explanation. All of the wealthiest and most important youkais, and their family members are given the title Taisho-sama (which basically means "Mr. Boss").

Here's some Japanese translations! ^_^ (In order from usage in chapter!)

Youkai -- Demon

Hanyou -- Half demon

Nani -- What?

Hai -- Yes

Okaasan -- Mother/Mom

Neechan -- Sister

Gomen nasai -- Sorry!

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Chapter Two

Kagome twirled the pencil around her finger, her thoughts trailed off the chromosome reproduction. It wasn't much of a surprise, seeing it happened every time her science teacher talked in a monologue--which is everyday.

Her thoughts wandered off to the Taisho-sama they had met today. It wasn't his silver hair, piercing eyes, or title that drew her attention. It was the way he had acted. The indifferent air he had. The thing he had done.

~~~Flashback~~~

"Really, Kag-chan! You don't need to--" Eri started.

"I will do something to get back at him...I promise! If he did anything to you!" Kagome ranted, knowing that she'd probably be murdered before she could lay a hand on a Taisho-sama.

"If he did anything?" Eri asked, with a hidden tint of amusement.

"Yes."

"Even if he only..."

"Whatever he did, I promise--" Kagome repeated.

"...saved me from youkais who would've probably killed me?" Eri asked innocently.

Kagome fell. (Anime style!)

"N-Nani? He...s-saved you?"

"Hai."

~~~End Flashback~~~

She felt strange...a bit empty. She didn't understand why. She should've been happy that her friend hadn't been raped, or worse. She is...but...she can't help but feel...empty.

"Why empty?" Kagome asked herself.

Or perhaps its because this is the first time she had thought about a youkai without hate. But she didn't know what to feel--gratitude? How can she feels gratitude towards someone who's family now governs Japan and pays the police who had ruined her life at age 11?

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Kagome walked up the shrine steps, massaging her aching shoulders. It might just be her, but school was unusually long today.

"Kag-chan?" Sango asked.

"Huh?"

"You OK? You've so quiet today."

"Yeah...stress 's all," Kagome lied.

"Right..." Sango replied, quite unconvinced. Sango was an orphan, who's foster parents were thrown into jail for revolutionary thoughts. Ever since then, she had lived with the Higurashis.

Kagome sank back into her thoughts as she absent-mindedly opened the door. Being so absorbed, she didn't even hear Sango gasp and drop to the ground.

"Okaasan! I'm home!" Kagome shouted, oblivious to everything else, until the unnatural silence roused her curiousity. "Where--" She froze when she saw a familiar head.

"Neechan!" Souta hissed, crawling away from Kohaku (Sango's brother), and tugging at his sister, motioning for her to kneel down. But Kagome was frozen.

"Neechan..." this time, Souta's voice was desperate, begging his sister to stay out of trouble. The note in her brother's voice snapped Kagome out of her trance. She immediately kneeled down.

"Taisho-sama," she said. Yet, despite her training, she could not keep the bitterness out of her voice. She could not keep 5 years of pain and hatred locked within her.

"You may all rise," Inu-Yasha replied.

"Arigato." Six voices echoed simultaneously.

Inu-Yasha was no idiot. He had taken in all of his surroundings. He had heard the boy's desperate tone and he knew that this family was one who feared youkai's more than anything. But he wondered where the girl had gotten the courage to do what she did if she grew up like this.

"I wish to speak with Kagome Higurashi." He asked, breaking the silence. Humans were taught never to speak unless spoken to by a youkai. No "please." No "may I?" Youkais, at least those in high power, had been taught how to keep humans in line. They had been taught to humble humans. Inu-Yasha had never really liked humans. In fact, most humans disgusted him. They were pitiful creatures who were weak and pathetic and born to be humbled. The only reason he ever did what he did was because the youkais' actions disgusted him even more. There had only been two humans he treated as equals, and only one that he ever used please--his mother. "In private."

"Hai," Kagome replied. Everyone else quietly walked out of the room.

As soon as everyone else left, Kagome dropped her act.

"OK. What is it you want? Get it over with and butt out of my house!"

Inu-Yasha's eyes narrowed. It wouldn't be hard to deal with this girl. He can smell worry and hate all over her. Worry for her family and hate for him.

"My...my...your mother certainly didn't teach you manners..." he said with indifference.

"And what will you do about that?" Kagome hissed.

"Perhaps I should send down a police force to teach you some." The moment he said those words, he won.

"G-Gomen nasai," Kagome forced herself to say. She didn't want the same thing to happen again. She didn't want a repeat of what she had been trying so hard to forget.

Inu-Yasha immediately regretted saying those words. He may not like humans, but he was powerless against a crying wench. Not that Kagome was physically crying, but emotions were plain as the day to his youkai senses. Hers had changed. Everything fled, leaving a terrified girl without defense. He didn't understand why the words "police force" had struck her with so much terror when he had been nothing to her.

"Why so quick to give up?" He asked quietly.

"Please...just leave my family alone. And...please don't send over a police force...I'm begging you."

Inu-Yasha snorted. He had came here to find a challenge, and all he got was another pathetic shriveling human.

"Fine...on one condition..."

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Cliffy!

OK, I let the last one slide, but...I won't update til I get 7 reviews this time, k? I might not update in two weeks cause of all my other IY fanfics. Gomen nasai!

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